Rachael Kirkconnell told all about her split from Matt James on the latest episode of “Call Her Daddy,” Alex Cooper‘s podcast.
The 28-year-old Bachelor Nation winner revealed why the 33-year-old broke up with her while on vacation in Tokyo, Japan.
In addition, she did reveal that they have been in contact in the days after the split.
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The first time he called, she got a missed call at 1am from him.
Rachael said, “So I called him back just to see what he wanted, and he just asked how I was doing, which I’m like, ‘How do you think I’m doing? Like, what?’ And then, yeah, I confronted him about the [breakup] post.”
If you don’t know, Matt posted about their split on his Instagram just hours after it happened, without any notice.
“I don’t know if it was out of just him being so worked up, if it was out of anger, or if it was one of those things where he felt like he needed to do it to really finally just put a nail in the coffin, but I have spoken with him since all of that and I do know that he definitely acknowledges that that was not the right decision,” she shared.
About the post, she added, “I said, like, you know, that really sucked. And that’s when he was like, ‘Yeah. I fully admit that I could have handled this a lot better,’ and he apologized,” she continued. “Obviously, he made a mistake doing that, but I think he knows that, and I think he regrets it.”
Rachael then shared that they’ve spoken a few times, but she finally told him he didn’t need to keep checking in on her.
“He’s called me every, like, few days just to make sure I’m okay, but I told him that he didn’t need to do that. The last time we spoke, I was like, ‘You don’t need to call and check up on me. Like, I’ll be okay.’ And so that was that,” she said. “I don’t know if he’s feeling bad or he just wants to see where I’m at, I don’t know.”
After the release of the podcast interview, Rachael received a lot of support.
She posted the following on her Instagram Story: